Re: [tied] Pigs

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Since some relate *bhag- "distibute; eat" to *bhag- "beech; oak",
> > asumming the latter to have been named from its role as pig feed,

I

> > was wondering if English 'pig' might belong here too. How is your
> > monograph on pigs coming along, Piotr?
>
> It was an article on the word "dog".

Oops.

Finished long ago but still in

> limbo, at the publishers' mercy. When I hear from them, I'll post

the

> details. As for "pig" (OE *picga, attested indirectly), I wouldn't

know

> how to connect it with *bHag-.
>

Møller has bh-/p- alternations almost as a standard feature. -g would
follow if it's a loan into Nordwestblock (which p- says it is). That
leaves the vowel to be explained. I noticed the old proposal of a
connection between *pork- and *perk- "mess, wühlen", and thought of a
connection with 'poke' (cf g/k alternation in *pak-, *pag-).


Torsten